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This is not a criticism of any of the transcribers. I was just at a loss to know how it could happen, I only looked at the GRO index because I had seen 1882 in the Ancestry trees.
Dawnsh I think that is a reasonable thing to do, I hadn't thought of finding the ones before and after and checking the dates for them
BumbleB, I did check the scans before I posted, and you are right the GRO indexes say what it says on FreeBMD
I will e-mail Sheffield Archives and see what they will do.  If I get a resolution I will post back on here and you will all know the outcome
Thanks again for all your help
Liz
Guy just read your comments too, I am sure when I checked some births on the GRO index in Derbyshire they were handwritten and a similar date.  Like you say the error could be a historical one.

Help please
I have a photocopy of the original marriage certificate of Thomas Dannatt and Mary Harriet Barlow.  The original certificate is still in the family.  On my copy it says:- Page 19, entry  no 38, 1880 Marriage solemnised at the Parish Church in the parish of Sheffield in the county of York.
The details are Thomas Dannatt age 31 Miner of 8 Duke St father George Dannatt miner and Mary Harriet Barlow age 25 spinster of South Street, father George Barlow.  The marriage followed Banns and took place on the 5 November 1880.
FreeBMD has this reference for the marriage Dec 1/4 1882.  Sheffield 9c 620.  What I can't understand is how it can be two years away from the original marriage.  Several people on Ancestry Family trees have Dec 1/4 1882 as the date of marriage.
The 1911 census has the couple married for 32 years which would correspond with a date of 1880.  I have read the criteria for asking FreeBMD to make alterations.  It seems possession of the original certificate is not one of them.
Many thanks
LizTJ

 

This appears to confirm what I was told by my auntie when I started researching the family history, she told me he had been hit in the leg by a bullet, but she wasn't sure whether it was WW1 or not.  He went on to have two further sons after Georges death - and a further four daughters, I was quite young when he died in 1952 but I remember Aunt Carrie, she died 1959.
Thanks for all your help.
Liz

Thank you for any trouble I have put you to.  I had looked on the Archives site and found a reference PR111 m for St James. Woodhouse Mill.  As my Dannatts lived there I had hoped that that was where they married, perhaps I should have included the reference on my original request.
Liz